Meera Eragoda
What Grinds Our Gears: Logging into the SFU library catalogue . . . and then every journal under the sun
January 13, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Staff Writer Have you ever been writing a paper last minute, desperately trying to find academic sources, only to have the SFU library require that you sign into every external website you click on? The process is then frustrated so much that you contemplate just not handing in your paper at all. If you can’t relate, you must be the rare unicorn who allocates yourself plenty of time, and I applaud you for it. I, unfortunately, am a god of procrastination, and I’ve realized that nothing is more hair-pullingly infuriating than SFU’s library system. When I was at…
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Affordable housing, not gaudy art, is what Vancouver residents need
January 4, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Staff Writer Picture this: a 3,400 kilogram chandelier shining brightly on the faces of those peering through the lenses of their newest iPhones, attempting to capture the best picture for the gram. On the periphery, homeless folk who…
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What are SFU students looking forward to in 2020?
January 3, 2020By: Kelly Chia, Meera Eragoda, Victoria Lopatka, Nicky Magas, Lubaba Mahmud, Kim Regala I want to live my twenties without guilt about taking time to rest. Hi there, 2020. 2019 was a year of many firsts for me: it was the…
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Arguments can’t be “pro-life” if concern for life ends at birth
November 10, 2019By: Meera Eragoda, SFU Student It all started during Clubs Days when I was wandering the booths. As I approached one, a member who was explaining the club to a passerby turned to include me in her explanation: “We’re SFU’s pro-life…
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